St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 6, 1909

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“FIRST IN EVERYTHING.”

Only Evening Paper in ‘St. Lonis With the Associated Press News Service.

“VOL. 62. NO. Al,

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VON PH UL ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY. EVE! EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1909.

CING NORTH 1 Lahm Cup in Grasp of St. Louis Ill at St. Cloud, Minn., 535

CITY OFFICULS PARADE AND Li CORNERSTON Brilliant Pageant Through Dewntown Streets Attracts Tremendous Crowds, — — — THOVSANDSS NMIUIDE Mounted Police Head sion Followed by Men Who 1 Make the Laws. EXHIBIT BY FIREMEN Ancient Apparatus Contrasted With Modern Fire-Fighting Weapons. Mayor Kreismann, spreading the mor- tar with a silver trowel, laid the cor- nerstone of the new Municipal Courts building Wednesday afternoon, at the @Glose of the municipal parade of the morning, when St. Louis’ municipal gov- ernment “showed off’ to visitors and citizens. The Mayor and President Gundlach of the City Council made addresses. From a small city of small buildings to a great city of great deeds was the central idea of the Mayor’s talk. Bishop Tut- tle of the Episcopal atocese of Missouri spoke the invocation and blessed the new building. At the moment of the cornerstone laying, though the officials were un- aware of it, another ceremony was tak- ing place in the City Hall, just oppo- gite, At a inthe office of the mm 3 over — ‘thousands were gathered, a ved⸗ “ @uig cremony was performed. ag Two Ceremonies at Once. Miss Jessie K. Chaille of Otwell, Ind., Was the bride. She had come to St. Louis for the Centennial exercises, 'which may have been merely inciden- . tal to the fact that Harley S. Lemmon * of, 457 Bichelberger avenue, her fiance, ‘tives here. After she arrived they de- , » glided to make Wednesday their wed- ding day. They learned while they were getting their marriage license that the cornerstone was about to be laid, and they determined to add an impromptu “geremony to the official one, Justice Riechmann was summoned. He ' pronounced the marriage ceremony while Mayor Kreismann was laying the’ cornerstone. “I have just helped lay the corner- stone of another home,” said the Justice fm announcing the marriage. ~ -¥n@ide the stone was placed an Ameri- an flag, the Mayor’s address, copies - of the Post-Dispatch and six other news- of : date, three photo- und, a centennial edi- ‘tion of the St. Louis Republic, a copy ef the official tennial program, a -pieture of St. vis in the twentieth century, eleven ordinances relating to _ the erection of the buliding, current is- _ Sues. of postage stamps, silver and cop- ‘per éoins, a copy cf the contract and oo © roster of the city offi- _ @lals and members of the Municipal As- - sembly, and a revised code of the city. Following the ceremony of-laying the for the best arrest, the greatest bravery and for excellence in

THOUSANDS SE POLICE PARADE AND GET MEDALS — —— Court of Honor Crowded With Mayors and Special Guests .. of City. The annual police parade and miédal awards took place on Twelfth ‘street at 1 p. m. Wednesday...The paratie was witnessed by a-crowd of thousands, the Court of Honor seats being filled. with mayors and other special guests. | The policemen, after the morning pa- rade, rested on Thirteenth street. back of the City Hall. At the hour for the parade they advanced to Twelfth and Market streets, marched up ‘Twelfth street to Washington avenue and back to thé reviewing stand, where the Police Coramissioners sat; between Chestnut and Market streets on Twelfth street. #he order of marcn was very similar to that of the morning when the-police took part in the municipal pageant. However, the Police Commissioners were not marching. The formation was: O’Brien in Lead. Capt. Martin O’Brien, heading the mounted squad; Chief Creecy and his aids, Inspector Richard McDonnell and | Drillmaster T. ‘Rosser Roemer, followed | by five companies of police; Lieutenant- Colonel Richard Gillaspy and his aids, | Surgeon A. C. Robinson and Lieut, Pat- panies, and then the transportation de- partment, including the police autos, patro] wagons, and a bicycle squad. When the parade returned to the re- ' viewing stand, after marching through the Court of Honor, the commissioners left their seats to inspect the men. Then by Drill Master Roemer. squad also Want through evolutions. -Dhe presentation of the medals was the concluding feature of the exercises. Col, John A. Laird, president of the Police Board, made the ‘presentation speeches. Patrolman John Hutton of the Dayton Street Station who was given a specta! ‘bronze medal for bravery, was highly | braised by Col. Laird. »Hutton’s Wound Killed Gang. The Board president told Hutton that Riis fearless work in entering the West @nd Physical Cuiture Club when he knew the Sottom, Gang, which made headquarters there, had threatened to 1%P, him, could not be commended too — 7 highly. : He said Patrolman Hutton’s & the club and receiving a bullet the beginning of the dstruc- —* tron of of most notorious gang the po- @n-} Patrolman Peter - ad to dcal with. Mannion of the received the gold for the best arrest of the year nted District who had peen holding up ow! cars. Sergt. Patrick E. Kennedy of the Day- ton Street District received the gold medal for bravery for arresting an armed negro who was firing’ at him and who shot a bullet —” his cap.

| rick McKenna, followed by five com-— mororcycle patrolmen , they were put through drill evolutions | The mounted | Tfor capturing two armed highwaymen 1

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—————————— 4i—POLICEMEN 1% Samba! 5—“WHITE WINGS’! IN PARADE. Aeroplane and Aeronauts, Police and ‘White W ings’ > Parading; Photographed on One Busy Day of St. Louis Centennial Week

Speen er FAIR WEATHER is THE FAIR FORTUNE ‘CONTINUED wNTO. US UNDER A NEW QUEEN THE TEMPERATURES.

Yesterday. Maximum .....«++- ..76 at 3 p. m. Minimum ..... . 55 at 7 a. m. *‘Mamma,”’ said little Johnny, ‘‘is Dr. Cook really going to march in front of the pa- rade?” “Yes, my son,’ “IT wonder how high he can throw it and spin it around on one fin- ger?’’ “Throw what, my child?’ “Why, the North *# Pole— won't he use it for a drum ma- jor's stick when he marches in front of. the band?” The official fore- cast: Fair tonight and Thursday; moderate temperature; light but increasing easterly winds. The stage of the river is 6 feet, a fal) of .2. Missour:, Mlinois, Minnesota and lova⸗ Generally fair tonight and Thursday.

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You Are Invited to Visit the POST-DISPATCH Centennial Week

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“ng AL 8 EAD ATE L MUCH SORROW John Schillinger Lost Farm, Money, Family and Then His Eye-Sight. } John —— who, — is sili by his friends. had as many troubles as Job-and the patience of Job, is dead. He triumphed over his troubles, and has’ gone to the other world in the full con- fidence that thereéhe will receive the reward of. hia patience, and the recom- pense of his sorrows. Through all.his troubles his faith nev- er wavered. He could be as patient as Job, because he was sure that the thing would be evened up somehow, some- where, beyond the grave if not here. BSo, as each new trouble came, he read the story of Job, and arose and walked back and forth across the floor, and his “Jah, jah, jah” was the affirmation of his confidence that it was all right, or it would all come right in the end. John Schillinger had lost’110 acres of land, three wives, five children, $725 by the breaking of a bank, and his sight. but he Had gained the peace of perfect patience and a clearer vision than eyes Can give. River Washed Land Away, He bought the 110 acres at Madison Landing, on the Illinois side, opposite | the mouth of the Missouri River, in 1862. The river washed away acre after acre. He moved his nouse three times, the last time in 1885. In 1998 the flood took the house and the rest of his farm and most of his stoek. He sold his remainihg possessions for $725 and put the money in an Edwardsville bank. The bank failed and he lost the money, He married Elizabeth Zeibold Six children were born. .Two of cled. The wife died in 185. He; ried her sister Annie. Three KNABENSHUE. DIRIGIBLE FLIGHT AT FOREST PARK — — — Aeronaut Flies Three-Quarters of a Mile and Returns to Tent. aa — - Knaber®hue made a five-minute tryout-th his dirigible balloon from the Srfation field in Forest. Park at 10 a. m, Wednesday. The flight, which was not on the. program, was witnesses by about 500 persons. In 15 minutes after the dirigible was taken out of.its tent, Knabenshue was ready to start. The preliminaries consisted to a great extent in getting his motorcycle engine running smooth- ly. sshree minutes after the engine was working to suit the @eronaut, he gave the signal and his hydrogen’ gag filled bag was pointed upward by his assist- ants and released. ‘as he rose from the ground the specta- tors cheered. It was observed that his propeller revolved much faster than the propeller on the machine he uséd at the World’s Fair. The blades of thée-ola propeller could be seen while in motion; but the propeller of the new machine whirls like an electric fan. Knabenshue flew off toward the Blair Mounment, the dirigible wobbling some- what from the initial movement of the start, and a stiff wind from the south. east. Knabenshne was headed due east. after a flight of three-quarters of a mile, in which he easily distancea a boy on a bicycle following him; Knap. enshue turned, headed into the wing and started back to the aviation fieia He passed over his tent and landed comfortably near the Skinker © roag. During the flight he maintained an ay- erage height of about 200 feet ana ais-

‘played skill ip steadying his machine. He held his course at ail oo in spite

— BALLON RAC POLICE GET HIN Edgar W. Mix of Columbus, O., Arrested After Land- ing in Russia. Special Cablegram tn the Post-Dis- patch. ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 6.— Edgar wv. Mix of Columbus, O., representing America“in the, international balloon race which started from this city on Sunday, won the contest by making 4 voyage of 683 miles, thus giving to the United States the next international race of balloons. Mix had a thrilling experience. sailing more than #@ hours, across Aus- tria, Hungary and Russian Poland, he landed at 3:00 o’clock yesterday morning in a dense forest north of Warsaw, and was there taken in custody by the po- lice. , Grabbed by Russian Police. His own teregraphic report, received in this city, follows: : I landed in the midst of a large pine tree in’ the- forest of Gutova, west of Ostrolenka and north of Warsaw at 3 o'clock Tuesday morn- ing. I encountered a heavy rain. My ‘dallast was exhausted When I came down. At present I am in the hands of the police, but all is go- ing well. I had. bad weather Sunday night. It was cloudy and rain féll and I used half my ballast before morning. The weather was so thick it was im- possible for me to locate my posi- tion, except for one hour south of Prague, and a star “bservation I took at latitude 61:45:1 and ldngitude

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Minnesota. About 500 Miles From § St gk * STILL IN -THE — St, Louis Third, Von Phal and O'Reilly, reported ot Sank 2 Minn., 535 milee from’St. Louis, 8:10 a. m. : miles, 8 a. m. : See Centennial, Honeywell * Tolland, Livingston, Ales 400 fe 11 a. m Louis. LANDED: The. Gleyeland, — City, La. 450 miles; the University City; Berry-and "MO, "Tuesday, 195 milésy Pomnery, A. * (Te ' Tuesday, 160 miles; Missouri, § a Tuesday, about. 120. miles; — Tuesday, about 120 — — * Northward bound toward the ip §. Louis, Von Phul,.in his first right a — a licens good balloon St. Louis HI Wednesday = inane ne Mississippi in Minnesota, probable winner of t victor in the main Centennial racing event. Meanwhile E, Eugene Honeywell in the Ge ward the opposite point of the compass, —— see overnight into Alabama, For the first time in balloon history, two contenders flew to widely varying points. — A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn, to} the Post-Dispatch said the St. Touls] III passed Sauk Rapids at 8:10 a. mi, its northward flight evenings having been f diverted slightly to the east and to- ward Lake Superior. The dispatch said the opinion prevailed in St, Paul that], the balloon, and the Indiana, following it, would lapd in the swamps west of Duluth. The St. Cloud (Minn.) —— ot the Post-Dispatch wired that as the St. Louis III passed over the town Von Phu! called to know his whereabouts, and seemed pleased at the answer, He gave the name of the balloon, and said he hoped to reach Canada. , The country then about to be travers- ed by the balloon is sparsely settled, the | dispatch said, consisting of “cut-over”’ pine lands. The weather in that region is beautiful, and very little surface breeze was stirring. From Livingston, Ala., % — of Epes, an Associated Press dispatch reached the Post-Dispatch saying the Centennial was sailing low and steadily a mile east of the town, bound straight forthe Gulf. : The .Cleveland, J H. Wade Jr., pilot, and A.’ H. Morgan, aid, landed five miles northeast of Alexander City, | at j i H F sped the St. Louis III, the Indiana, roncontestant, piloted by the Magill, who Renville, Louis, basket, conversed wi

Indiana (Noncontestant © ee -Cup) * Ov Indiara (noncontentene McGill and Shauer, Renville, "i